In 2007 I was finishing up a training ride in anticipation of doing a century ride the upcoming weekend. I was in a park riding on the road and was about to pass another rider on his left who was hugging the curb. I was well in the middle of the road when the guy decided to make a u-turn. Never looked once before turing right into my path and I broadsided him doing about 23mph.

I went ass over tit and among the broken bones I suffered was a fractured elbow which required two pins. I also broke three fingers on my left hand including my ring finger which required my wedding band to be cut off not to mention 7stitches on my left eyebrow.

Broken elbow sucks but better than a broken skull. Thank Allah for the helmet.

Jason: Not to be humorless, but things like LifeAlert actually do work. When my dad slipped & fell, he pushed the button and it called me. Although he was 50' away from the main unit, around a corner, I could still hear him and he me (which was saying a lot considering his hearing).

When a friend of my mom's fell & broke her hip a couple of weeks ago, it took her a couple of hours of making noise before attracting a neighbor's attention and summoning help. Had the neighbor not gone to weed that side of her yard, the woman would probably have been there a lot longer.

"He didn't make the joke about a 14-year old girl. He thought he made the joke about the one who was pregnant and an adult."

So he says, but I find it impossible to believe a man as successful and smart and with a competent staff didn't know who was with Palin at the game. Please, he knew but just didn't think anyone would care.

Secondly, Bristol is just 18 . . . the joke doesn't really play that well with her either. (Except in the hearts and minds of those who hate Palin and her family).

There, that horse is beaten to death now. And in the end no minds were changed.

He didn't make the joke about a 14-year old girl. He thought he made the joke about the one who was pregnant and an adult.

Whatever he intended, the words that came out of his mouth added up to a joke about a 14-year-old girl, and it took him a week to apologize for that.

And he still won't apologize for his ongoing campaign to degrade Bristol Palin as a way to hurt Gov. Palin. All Gov. Palin did was attend a baseball game--and Letterman is trashing her children? Does Davey think if he does this enough, Gov. Palin will disappear? He's wrong, but that doesn't mean we should ignore his disgusting, creepy, sexist obsession.

"He thought he made the joke about the one who was pregnant and an adult."

You mean the one who is the barely-legal teenage daughter of a (past) political candidate? The daughter who is minding her own business and has never sought the public spotlight (her mom was the candidate, remember)? Since when is it open season on making sex jokes about a politician's children, whether they are 14 or 18?

People used to be wise enough to realize how tacky and over-the-line this is. If Bristol Palin decides to run for political office (as Hillary has) and make herself a public figure then the situation will be different. But right now, it's just creepy picking on a teenage girl whose only sin is, apparently, to have Sarah Palin for a mother.

MM, Leno's joke repeated what was already reported (that Bristol was pregnant) and made the joke about Edwards being the father, which was slanderous to HIM, since she was underage. Not very nice, but very different from Letterman making up a pregnancy.Still no response from A-Rod? Guess he knows when to keep his mouth shut.

"What is with these Liberal women, Sotomayor and Clinton, they can't walk and talk at the same time."

Don't forget Liberal talk radio's Randi Rhodes who got drunk and fell down in 2007, causing substantial injuries, then claimed some guy mugged her. Later admitted to being drunk and not remembering anything.

I know conservative women drink, but are they more weeble-like or what explains their gravitational superiority.

Since there are so many legal eagles here, I'm interested as to what is the significance of the president's handling of these IG's lately.-From what I've heard, it is totally illegal, not to mention extremely uncool to send out record amounts of tax money and simultaneously fire the people charged with making sure it is not corruptly spent.-The uselessness of the media, I fear, is getting very dangerous to us all.

These "I fell and I can't get up" stories puzzle me (hopefully I never find out first hand). My Dad had a close friend who, in his 60's, fell out of a tree while chainsawing off a limb, and broke his back. He crawled a mile down a gravel country road to get help. When you ask him about it he says, "yeah, it hurt like hell, but what choice did I have?"

First Sonia, now Hillary. It's these wannabe manly leftwing power women attempting the power roll, losing balance and taking a spill. Norman Mailer had the roll down pat. Or they could take lessons from their friendly neighborhood bull dyke.

So much for my previous belief that the broad-butted, thunder-thighed ,nothing up top, low center of gravity Hillary was like a weeble that may wobble, but never fall.

In other news, the Obamas denied they had lectured Saskia and Malia that laying banana peels out on the White House grounds for unwary whiteys was in any way funny.Michelle said "the word whitey never entered into any conversation, real or hypothetical".

I did something like that about 15 years ago. A rider in front of me suddenly stopped. I hit his bike and pretty much vaulted myself over him then hit the sidewalk and rolled almost off the curb into car traffic.

I was lucky - did not break any bones but my bike's sprocket was destroyed.

The asshole who I hit said to me "jeez you should be wearing a helmet". I said "good idea with idiots like you on the trail".

First Sonia, now Hillary. It's these wannabe manly leftwing power women attempting the power roll, losing balance and taking a spill.

Except it's not just lefties or women to whom this is happening; here in Texas, our very rightwing, very male Governor Rick Perry broke his collarbone after falling off his bicycle last week. He had to do his ceremonial bill-signing session with the "wrong" hand after that, because his writing arm was in a sling.

And all politics aside, I have nothing but best wishes for these folks; as someone who slipped on a steep staircase a few months ago and is still awaiting knee surgery, I know full well that the force of gravity, when unexpectedly encountered, can be a formidable foe.

I broke a helmet when an idiot pedestrian stepped off the curb into the bike lane in the middle of the block. Did she look to see me speeding towards her? She did not. Did I go ass over teakettle trying to avoid killing her? I did.

OK Guys. Not funny. (Maybe slightly ironic) A shatterd elbow is very painful and we shouldn't be amused at someone's physical pain.

Yeah...except that when I cracked a couple of ribs (also a bike wreck) my friends, coworkers, and even my loving wife had enormous fun at my expense. The big sport was to try to make me laugh, increasing my suffering. It somehow made the situation more tolerable.

These "I fell and I can't get up" stories puzzle me (hopefully I never find out first hand).

I hope you never do. Not everyone is as physically fit as your dad's friend probably was. In my dad's case, COPD was killing him and he was dead two weeks later. Getting up from the floor by himself was not an option, although he did try. I do know a woman who suffered a heart attack after getting out of her car in the garage. She tried climbing the stairs on her own to get help. That's where they found her three days after she died.

My Dad had a close friend who, in his 60's, fell out of a tree while chainsawing off a limb, and broke his back. He crawled a mile down a gravel country road to get help. When you ask him about it he says, "yeah, it hurt like hell, but what choice did I have?"

Glad he made it. My question would be more along the lines of what was he doing up in a tree fooling around with a chainsaw all by himself, a mile away from anyone else.

That WOOOSH I heard earlier was AlphaLiberal scrambling to amass his latest propaganda barrage on Althouse against the snark that Hillary will received on his way to begin his candlelight vigil underneath her hospital window.

In other news Washington D.C. receives a bit of a respite from the perpetual sound of nervous courtesy cackling.